Law on Personal Data, cross-border transfer

Law of the Republic of Azerbaijan on Personal Data, Law No. 998-IIIQ, Art. 14

A citation is an address, not a summary. The first part names the law; what follows narrows it to the exact section, article or paragraph.

What follows is LexLint's own research summary of this law, not legal advice.

In force since 11 May 2010.

A cross border transfer rule binding public and private bodies.

As of 29 August 2026.

What it requires

An app transferring the personal data of a person in Azerbaijan to a recipient outside Azerbaijan must ensure the destination provides legal protection at the level Azerbaijani law sets, unless the data subject has consented or the transfer is necessary to protect the subject's life or health, since Azerbaijan has no contract, binding-corporate-rule, or authority-permit route for a non-adequate destination.

What this law does

Drafted with AI from the cited sources under the direction of UnGovr staff. UnGovr holds editorial responsibility for this page.

Transfer is the default rule under Art. 14.1, prohibited only where it threatens national security (Art. 14.2.1) or the destination country's law does not ensure legal protection at the level determined by the legislation of the Republic of Azerbaijan (Art. 14.2.2).

Art. 14.3 then creates a broad override: with the data subject's consent, or where necessary to protect the subject's life or health, transfer may proceed regardless of the destination's actual level of legal protection, meaning consent fully overrides the adequacy-style standard rather than merely supplementing it.

No standard-contract, binding-corporate-rule, or authority-permit mechanism exists for a non-adequate destination, unlike several regional peers' authority-approval or contract-approval routes; this is a noticeably thinner, more binary regime, coded strict at the jurisdiction level rather than moderate for that reason. No data localization is compelled.

When LexLint raises it

crawls_web
trains_models
processes_biometrics
processes_voice

Read the law

official English translation, International Labour Organization NATLEX

Every line above is drawn from the primary source linked here, read on the date shown. This is a research summary, not legal advice.

Back to the example · Lint your app